Comparison learning check Score:

1.What is a theme that is contained in both Witness and To Kill a Mockingbird?

A capitalism

B circle of life

C love

D race

2.How can you relate Leanora to Boo Radley? They both ______.
A are liked in the community

B are outcasts and feared as the "other"

C have the same skin color

D want to change society

3.Who from To Kill a Mockingbird can you compare to Leanora from Witness?
A Atticus

B Boo Radley

C Dill Harris

D Jem

4.Leanora and Esther both experience racism towards them.

A True

B False

5.The Poem "We Real Cool" can be compared to Witness because they both show
racism.
A True

B False

6."So many people still judged by their race For such there never ought to be a place" from
the poem Racism is Around Me Everywhere by Francis Duggan means what to you?

7.Thinking on the how the Ku Klux Klan affected the town in Witness, how do you think your
life would be affected if you the K.K.K. were to move into your town?

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8.Looking at this couple, how would they be seen from the view of the town in
Mockingbird or Witness?

9.From the poems we have read on racism, which one connects to the play Witness best (to
you) and why?

10.Atticus is defending Boo Radley in court because he was accused of raping a

white woman.
A True

B False

11.Sara Chickering was harassed by the K.K.K. because _____.

A a black girl living with her

B a Jewish girl was living with her

C she supported equal rights for African Americans

D she would not poison the Sutters' well

12.One World by Honestly J.T. is a poem about racism and how love is one color.
A True

B False

13.Even though To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 and Witness took place in 1924,
how do you think the ideas of segregation of groups are still relevant today, and how would
you suggest to change that?

14.Which poem matches the theme of To Kill a Mockingbird best>

A Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

B One World by Honestly J.T.

C Who am I? by Carl Sandburg

D We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

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15.What do the lines "all of our blood is the same
that runs deep within our veins" relate to the play Witness?

16.Merlin Van Tornhout puts poison in the Sutters' well and shoots Mr. Hirsh.
A True

B False

17.How do you think the play Witness ends? Do you think Johnny Reeves is still alive?

18.How do you think the trial would be different today from To Kill a Mockingbird and how
do you think Atticus would have been treated differently?

19.What personal experience, book, play, etc. you have read can you relate to the stories
and poems we have read about racism?

20.How do you think the development of the characters Leanora and Esther throughout
Witness can be compared to the growth of an opposite character type, Scout Finch from To
Kill a Mockingbird?

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